GULF WAR 10 YEARS LATER: Kitsap's casualties

* Marine Pfc. Dustin Lamoureux of Bremerton was killed in an accident Dec. 5, 1990, after being deployed with the Marines to Saudi Arabia.

* Army Sgt. Lee Belas of Port Orchard died along with eight others Feb. 27, 1991, in a helicopter crash near the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in Iraq. The Blackhawk helicopter was shot down by Iraq's Republican Guard.

* Army Lance Cpl. Michael Linderman, a graduate of Central Kitsap High School, was killed with several others by friendly fire Feb. 27, 1991. A missile fired by a U.S. warplane struck their armored vehicle during a battle outside Khafji.

* Army Spec. Dean Mobley of Bremerton was killed by a land mine on Feb. 27, 1991. He was driving a truck in the 3rd Armored Division that drove into the heart of the Republican Guard in Southern Iraq.

WRONG SERVICE: Lance Cpl. Michael Linderman, one of four people from Kitsap County killed during the Persian Gulf War, served in the Marines. An article Sunday incorrectly listed him as having served in the Army.— 01/15/2001

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